Parasitter allows you to follow your favorite Twitter and YouTube accounts with full privacy. Parasitter (first version, this is [now being changed](https://github.com/pluja/Parasitter/blob/dev-indep/README.md)!) uses [Nitter's](https://nitter.net/) and [Invidious](invidio.us) rss feeds in order to gather the latest content from your favourite accounts and builds a *beautiful* feed. We will never connect you to Twitter or YouTube in any way, so your privacy is safe when using Parasitter. Parasitter is written in Python and Flask and uses Semantic-UI as its CSS framework.
Parasitter doesn't try to compete with Nitter nor Invidious. It serves as a complement, as it beneficiates from them. Parasitter is not a Twitter viewer as Nitter is or a YouTube frontend as Invidious. Instead Parasitter gathers all your accounts in one place so you can stay tuned with their latest content.
Parasitter is possible thanks to several open-source projects that are listed on the [Powered by](#powered-by) section. Make sure to check out those awesome projects!
Only the hash of your password is stored on the database. Also no personal information of any kind is kept on the app itself, if a hacker gets access to it only thing they could do would be to follow/unfollow some accounts.
Parasitter cares about your privacy, and for this it will never make any connection to Twitter or Youtube. We make use of rss feeds to fetch all the tweets and videos from your followed accounts. If you want to use a specific Nitter or Invidious instance you can replace it at the top of the file `app/routes.py`.
It is always recommended to set up a self-hosted instance. It is quite easy and conveninent and will give you full control over your data. The only data that is stored on the Database is:
You don't need a server to run Parasitter. You can run it on your computer locally and own your (little) data. The installation process is done on a GNU/Linux environment, but should be pretty similar on other platforms.
> Now you are inside of the virtual environment for python. All instructions wiht [env] indicate that must be done inside the env if you decided to create one. From now on, you will always need to start the application from within the virtual env.
Another option is to host a Parasitter server so you can access it from anywhere or give access to your beloved friends/community. Installation is a little bit more complex than the [local](#local), but should be easy if you follow the steps.
> It will prompt for the "root" password. This password is the one you set on the MySQL installation.
2. Create the database:
- mysql> `create database parasitter character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;`
- mysql> `create user 'parasitter'@'localhost' identified by '<db-password>';`
> Replace `<db-password>` as the password for the database *parasitter* user. This one needs to match the password set on the DATABASE_URL in the *.env* file (See Step 5 of [App installation](installing-the-app))
- mysql> `grant all privileges on parasitter.* to 'parasitter'@'localhost';`
Testing with a public instance will soon be needed, and I will need to set up a server for this. If I want that Parasitter to go public and host some users I will need a (relativelly) good server and this is somehow expensive for me. So any contribution will be really welcome!
